atoma 0.0.3

Atom and RSS feed parser for Python 3

Atom and RSS feed parser for Python 3.

Quickstart

Install Atoma with pip:

pip install atoma

Load and parse an Atom XML file:

>>> import atoma
>>> feed = atoma.parse_rss_file('rss-feed.xml')
>>> feed.description
'The blog relating the daily life of web agency developers'
>>> len(feed.items)
5

Parsing feeds from the Internet is easy as well:

>>> import atoma, requests
>>> response = requests.get('http://lucumr.pocoo.org/feed.atom')
>>> feed = atoma.parse_atom_bytes(response.content)
>>> feed.title.value
"Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings"

Features

• RSS 2.0 - RSS 2.0 Specification
• Atom Syndication Format v1 - RFC4287
• Typed: feeds decomposed into meaningful Python objects
• Secure: uses defusedxml to load untrusted feeds
• Compatible with Python 3.6+

Security warning

If you use this library to display content from feeds in a web page, you NEED to clean the HTML contained in the feeds to prevent Cross-site scripting (XSS). The bleach library is recommended for cleaning feeds.

Useful Resources

To use this library a basic understanding of feeds is required. For Atom, the Introduction to Atom is a must read. The RFC 4287 can help lift some ambiguities. Finally the feed validator is great to test hand-crafted feeds.

For RSS, the specification and rssboard.org have a ton of information and examples.

Non-implemented Features

Some seldom used features are not implemented:

• XML signature and encryption
• Atom and most RSS extensions
• Atom content other than text, html and xhtml

License

MIT Copyright (c) 2018 Nicolas Le Manchet

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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